Russian here. Biggest misconception from west about Putin and Russians that he not allowed to be criticized, we are doing that non stop and everywhere. Absolute all media except TV channels (though TV have talk shows with opposition members much more often than with any authorities) criticize him or government, and overall when you see polls like 60% of support for him (84% before pension reform) it is not 60% wholeheartedly support everything he does, but that they see him as most competent at the moment to run the country. There basically no viable alternative - Navalny western stooge and hypocrite, Grudinin communist, Zhirinovsky idiot, I personally like Kudrin but 99% of Russians either have no idea who that or against him. So what I did last election is vote for Putin. But not for United Russia, support for them among people very low. Sorry for mistakes in English

My University sent a photographer to our group (computational chemistry) to get photos for some brochures, and the photographer basically had us all combine the books from our offices, laptops, etc. On the main table so it would "look more science-y".

We had projectors displaying irrelevant C++ coding for that "look how computerific we are!" Effect....

Photogs wanna show what they think science is, not what it actually is.

We had people from a news station interviewing my supervisor. They asked to put some hacker staff on the projector (we are a security lab). I projected my terminal with tcpdump (software for security analysis) capturing traffic on my computer. It looks like matrix kind of

I think edX, UCSanDiegoX: DSE220x Machine Learning Fundamentals is better in a sense that
this stanford course is kinda old(?) and I really dislike their insistent of using Matlab as a learning tool. If you don't know python (or R), you probably shouldn't take machine learning course.